SEPTEMBER 03, 2017 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS. ROUTES: East and West sides in the morning, back side in the afternoon. TIME: 8:00am - 12:30pm; 1:40pm - 6:20pm TEMP.: 62 ~ 76 COND.: Cloudy and cool until 9:30am; turning partly sunny until 10:05am; mostly sunny, few clouds from 10:05am on; winds W at 5-10mph. OBS. EAST: Jim Reyda, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. WEST: Doug Brockway, Katie Clink, Jimmy Joyce, Jennifer Keuhn, Jim Koppen, Donna Kuhn, Dave & Kim Myles, Michael O'Brien, Ed Pierce, Tony Szilagye, Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. AFTERNOON: Bob Bartolotta, Claire Johnson, Jim Koppen, Ed Pierce, Jim Reyda, Douglas W. Vogus. I. MAMMALS: 6 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Cottontail - 1 2. Woodchuck - 1 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 6 4. Common Raccoon - 1 5. Mink - 1 6. White-tailed Deer - 2 II. BIRDS: 106 SPECIES, 6,234 TOTAL BIRDS. 1. Canada Goose - 298 2. Trumpeter Swan - 63 (neckband: "yellow 3A8") 3. Wood Duck - 101 4. American Black Duck - 2 5. Mallard - 530 6. Blue-winged Teal - 22 7. Northern Shoveler - 6 8. Green-winged Teal - 28 9. Northern Bobwhite - 1 (male at BSBO feeder area - 3rd record on census) 10. Pied-billed Grebe - 15 11. Rock Pigeon - 1 12. Mourning Dove - 131 13. Chimney Swift - 1 14. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 7 15. Common Gallinule - 5 16. Sandhill Crane - 19 17. Semipalmated Plover - 7 18. Killdeer - 98 19. Red Knot - 1 (in northeast corner of Pool 2c) 20. Least Sandpiper - 2 21. Pectoral Sandpiper - 14 22. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 18 23. Wilson's Snipe - 1 24. Spotted Sandpiper - 4 25. Solitary Sandpiper - 1 26. Greater Yellowlegs - 1 27. Lesser Yellowlegs - 13 28. Bonaparte's Gull - 15 29. Ring-billed Gull - 210 30. Herring Gull - 9 31. Caspian Tern - 23 32. Common Tern - 2 33. Double-crested Cormorant - 64 34. American White Pelican - 39 35. Great Blue Heron - 116 36. Great Egret - 281 37. Snowy Egret - 6 38. Green Heron - 8 39. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 40. Turkey Vulture - 7 41. Bald Eagle - 5 (2 adult,3 immature) 42. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 43. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 44. Belted Kingfisher - 18 45. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 9 46. Downy Woodpecker - 21 47. Northern Flicker - 11 48. American Kestrel - 2 49. Merlin - 1 50. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 13 51. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1 52. Willow Flycatcher - 1 53. Least Flycatcher - 3 (Unidentified *Empidonax* flycatcher - 1) 54. Eastern Phoebe - 23 55. Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 56. Eastern Kingbird - 17 57. Warbling Vireo - 15 58. Red-eyed Vireo - 11 59. Blue Jay - 37 60. Horned Lark - 1 61. Tree Swallow - 1,388 62. Barn Swallow - 75 63. White-breasted Nuthatch - 9 64. House Wren - 4 65. Marsh Wren - 5 66. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 8 67. Veery - 1 68. Swainson's Thrush - 7 69. American Robin - 58 70. Gray Catbird - 34 71. Brown Thrasher - 2 72. European Starling - 808 73. Cedar Waxwing - 36 74. House Sparrow - 107 75. House Finch - 14 76. American Goldfinch - 67 77. Black-and-white Warbler - 2 78. Tennessee Warbler - 1 79. Nashville Warbler - 1 80. Common Yellowthroat - 7 81. American Redstart - 15 82. Cape May Warbler - 1 83. Northern Parula - 1 84. Magnolia Warbler - 7 85. Bay-breasted Warbler - 21 86. Blackburnian Warbler - 2 87. Yellow Warbler - 2 88. Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 89. Blackpoll Warbler - 1 90. Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 91. Black-throated Green Warbler - 4 92. Canada Warbler - 1 93. Wilson's Warbler - 1 94. Chipping Sparrow - 1 95. Field Sparrow - 1 96. Savannah Sparrow - 2 97. Grasshopper Sparrow - 1 98. Song Sparrow - 19 99. Northern Cardinal - 22 100. Indigo Bunting - 10 101. Dickcissel - 7 102. Bobolink - 8 103. Red-winged Blackbird - 996 104. Common Grackle - 52 105. Brown-headed Cowbird - 47 106. Baltimore Oriole - 5 III. REPTILES: 4 SPECIES. 1. Red-eared Turtle - 4 2. Midland Painted Turtle - 24 3. Northern Water Snake - 9 4. Eastern Garter Snake - 1 IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES. 1. Bullfrog - 2 2. Green Frog - 1 3. Northern Leopard Frog - 23 V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES. 1. Common Carp - 9 2. Creek Chub - 8 VI. BUTTERFLIES: 15 SPECIES. 1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 1 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 57 3. Clouded Sulphur - 28 4. Orange Sulphur - 6 5. American Copper - 1 6. Bronze Copper - 2 7. Eastern Tailed-Blue - 1 8. Pearl Crescent - 7 9. Red Admiral - 10 10. American Painted Lady - 7 11. Common Buckeye - 8 12. Red-spotted Purple - 1 13. Viceroy - 9 14. Monarch - 44 15. Least Skipper - 6 Douglas W. Vogus - Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]